Breda Beban
dal 18/1/2001 al 18/2/2001
Segnalato da
18/1/2001
Breda Beban
Lux Centre, London
At the Lux Centre an exhibition by the artist Breda Beban untitled 'Still'. Still deals both with the narrative and the formal - but painful - acknowledgement that when one wants to tell a story about oneself there are always, piling up behind it and looming over it other, 'grander' narratives.
Still.
Still deals both with the narrative and the formal - but painful - acknowledgement that when one wants to tell a story about oneself there are always, piling up behind it and looming over it other, 'grander' narratives. Call them History and Politics; Culture and Nationality. Capitalise each abstraction to give them their proper weight. Then forget them. And, in the detail of a crumpled bedsheet, in the view through a hotel room window, in the box containing loved-one's ashes, rediscover them all anew as imprints left on a person's life.
The strategic channelling of powerful emotions and complex meanings through simple formal gestures are intrinsic to good films and great novels. How about the contemporary visual art context?
On your way to see Breda Beban's solo exhibition you'll walk across Hoxton Square, take the steps leading up to the gallery and you'll be looking at images of everyday life - beds, windows, city streets, landscapes. In time, and just as you are going to become aware that, little by little something has crept up on you, you'll be standing face to face with the fragility of the human condition. You'll probably want to cry.
Breda Beban says she wants to bring emotions into visual arts. This she certainly does.
The work of Breda Beban and Hrovje Horvatic was recently included in the major international touring exhibition 'After the wall: Art and Culture in Post Communist Europe'.
Hours - Tuesday to Sunday - from 12.00
Admission free
Lux Centre - 2/4 Hoxton Square - London N1 6NU - Tel. 020 7684 0201